Your School Years Journal & Keepsake
Your School Years Journal & Keepsake
- Local Family-Run Business, est 2016
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Luxury School Years Journal & Organiser designed for both practical everyday storage, and as a keepsake of your child’s school achievements and memories.
Full Description
Full Description
YOUR SCHOOL YEARS ORGANISER – A TIMELESS KEEPSAKE
The Your School Years is a luxury organiser in a binder/folder style designed to capture and store your child’s school achievements and memories. Handcrafted with premium materials, it offers flexibility, durability, and elegance—perfect for preserving precious moments. This binder is as practical as it is sentimental, offering both everyday functionality and a record of your child’s school journey.
MUCH MORE FLEXIBLE THAN SCHOOL JOURNALS
Unlike traditional school yearbooks or journals, this keepsake organiser provides full autonomy over how you choose to celebrate and document each year. You can easily add or remove sections, rearrange the dividers, and even punch holes in your own documents for inclusion. It’s designed to grow with your child and accommodate the changing interests and achievements they’ll accumulate along the way.
After making journals for 9 years, it would have been much more simple for us to create a School Journal… but we felt strongly that this design was more user-friendly and flexible for our customers and our children!
PERFECT FOR ANY SCHOOL JOURNEY
Whether you’re just starting or picking up mid-way through their school years, the binder’s versatile design makes it easy to adapt. It caters to both New Zealand and Australian school systems, with labels for either school years or grades. Need more space? No problem—you can easily purchase additional dividers, pockets, or sheet protectors to continue expanding the collection.
KEY FEATURES:
- Customisable Organisation42 gold-foil labels for school years (preschool/kindergarten – high school) plus categories like art, sports, music, drama, certificates, and more. See photo gallery for all label options.Whether you begin in preschool/prep or jump in mid-way through their school journey, no space is wasted. Additional dividers can be purchased for further customisation, ensuring that every milestone and extracurricular activity has its own special place.
- Practical & Spacious DesignEncased in a durable hardcover linen binder, the Your School Years Organiser features 14 sturdy dividers, perfect for organising by school year or area of interest.Additionally, we have included five thick clear sheet protectors for displaying cherished items like artwork and certificates, and two card pockets filesfor keeping reports and mementos safe.The spacious, simplistic design allows you to preserve your child’s most treasured school memories without the clutter of overflowing boxes.
- Memory Cards for Reflection150gsm double-sided memory cards with journal prompts for each school year.Thoughtful prompts for goal-setting, reflection, and “letters to you.”Dedicated photo page for each year.
- Flexible & ExpandableAdd or remove sections as you need, allowing complete control over how you organise your child’s school journey.Choose from 42 gold-foil labels—including school years, extracurriculars, and achievements—so you can personalise the binder to reflect your child’s unique experiences and interests.Create a truly customised keepsake by mixing and matching labels—organise by school year, activities like art and sports, or dedicate sections to awards and certificates.Whether you’re starting at preschool or mid-way through school, the flexibility of the binder ensures no space is wasted.Easily punch holes in your own documents for inclusion, using the 4-ring design to add extra pages, dividers, or memory cards.Tailored for both New Zealand and Australian school systems, offering labels for either school years or grades.Additional dividers, pockets, and sheet protectors are available, enabling countless ways to design and expand the binder to fit your needs.
FAQ:
What size school photos does it take?
- Add one school photo onto the memory card, with a useable space of 29.5 x 20.5 cm.
- Include A4 photos in the clear sheet protectors (fits multiple A4 sheets)
- Store additional photos in the storage pockets (fits multiple A4 sheets)
- Add additional pages, simply use a hole punch to add extras to the binder, or purchase additional pockets, dividers or clear sheet protectors.
Specifications
Specifications
Personalised Monogramming
Personalised Monogramming
Create bespoke, one-of-a-kind gifts to love by adding our Personalised Monogramming service to your journal.
We personalise by hand every second day in Auckland and Melbourne, shipping within 4 days. See our full Monogramming T&C for full details.
Shipping
Shipping
Shipping is daily from Auckland (Megan) and Melburne (Judy), and most orders are shipped within 24 hours (Additional time for personalised journals).
See T&C for our full Shipping & Returns terms, conditions and any exceptions to the above.
Returns
Returns
We want you to be happy with your purchase, and allow returns within 7 days of order - strictly in accordance with our T&C (excl Personalised)

Customer Reviews for this product
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from 1978 reviewsI love this book. The perfect amount of detail to write about my baby
The most perfect photo album for our little boys photos. He loves looking through it. It was the perfect addition to our collection of Forget Me Not products. The quality is impeccable and the customer service is next level.
Absolutely beautiful everything is perfect
Loved it! Very beautiful and sweet and excited to fill it out for both my boys
Its very beatifil and perfect size for my wedding guest book 😍 loved the personal touch as well, a note from the owner xx
Thank you to the team for helping me with some personalisation!!
Great product that I can't wait to start using.
Beautiful products and excellent customer service
This is such a beautiful book. Incredible quality and captures all of the memorable parts of a child’s first years. This is my second one - absolutely love them.
A lovely baby book with great prompts that make it easy to keep track of every milestone. We can’t wait to fill this with memories in the years to come.
Absolutely gorgeous and so well made, very happy and can see myself ordering more :)
Great Quality!
The journey is very well put together and the parents of my 5 year old granddaughter were most appreciative of it. It will be a wonderful keepsake.
The communication and service from Megan was wonderful.
I brought one each for my children and I’m blown away how well throughout they are. Beautifully made. I’m just super guttered that I didn’t realise where the name was going to be. I thought they replaced the ‘your’ with your child’s name so I’m stuck with mine having an ‘s’ on the end of their names. Totally my mistake but it would be nice for those in future to personalise. These are quite expensive but for a one off purchase for my kids I think it’s worth it.
Quality of the books are so luxe the hardcover and the crispness of the white is just beautiful. The content is exceptional, really well thought out and makes you think of things you would never think about.
There are other products out there that are similar, but they always seem to be missing something.